Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Whats complicated about using uncompress.sh instead of gzip and > fallback to gzip if not present?
Tons of things. What about programs called in uncompress.sh -- are dependancies supposed to be fullfilled then? What happens when the script fails? What if you don't trust debian, but want to unpack a debian package anyway, without running any scripts from it? What about speed? > The gain would be bzip2 compression BenC has already implemented this, from what I hear. -- see shy jo
